Army System(Need more brainstorming)

[Deleted]

 Since we have seen enough type suggestions the past few days, I think its time to change the suggestions' focus a bit. So I had the idea of implementing an army system. Simply, I was thinking of letting people who lead divisions or small armies, such as Captains in SS, Espada and Generals in Wandenreich have their own army. The size of the army and the power of the army will be based on how much army points(AP) has the one who leads them. This AP will be gained from participation in various RP threads in the end of each one, like most points. The AP will not be related with CTP, TTP, TP, SP or SKP, they will be entirely different and independent from them. They will be something like a shop, at which you can buy your own shinigami(it will be 100% legal to buy your own one), quincy, etc etc.

An example of this in action.

A captain named Bob Kuchiki of the 5th Division goes to the shop; he has 100 AP;

Class 6 Shinigami
Standard Regular Shinigami; 5 AP(knows Kido up to Class 6, Hoho up to 6, Hakuda up to 6)

400 SP for these guys. Up to 5 techniques (excluding Shunpo)

Class 4 Shinigami

Standard Regular Shinigami; 10 AP(knows Kido up to Class 5, Hoho up to Class 5, Hakuda up to Class 5, no release)

Standard Release Shinigami; 15 AP(knows Kido up to Class 4, Hoho up to Class 5, Hakuda up to Class 5, Shikai learned)

Technique Master Shinigami; 15 AP(knows Kido up to Class 3, Hoho up to Class 5, Hakuda up to Class 5, no release)

Weapon Master Shinigami; 15 AP(no Kido, Hoho up to Class 5, Hakuda up to 3, no release)

Weapon Master Shinigami; 30 AP(no Kidou, Hoho up to Class 4, Hakuda up to 3, Shikai learned)

600 SP for these guys. Up to 5 techniques (excluding Shunpo) Limit 1 TM (rare Type)

(NOTE:The AP are purely for understanding purposes and should not represent the actual system).

 

 So what do you guys think about the idea? Do you find revelant or irrevelant to the site? On a side note, it would be good to have more brainstorming with this.

[Himitsu Kasumi'Oji]

It's actually a feesible idea if a couple of details are tweaked a bit. I know having a small squadron during battles would make the fights all the more interesting. If done in a way that it doesn't impact a fight too much, I'd be willing to give the system a shot. However, it shouldn't have enough significant impact so that two people fighting switch their focus on leading their armies rather than fighting eachother. Priorities must be the head-to-head battles, not NPC army clashes. And it does seem like there would be many NPCs involved in the army, such as possibly giving one of the soldiers a higher leadership position such as corporal or the such. How would you expect combat with armies to work?

[Deleted]

For tha reason, I need brainstorming. I just say that this system will be entirely different from the standard 1v1 system, so they will be no impact.

[Kyomei Kuchiki]

Test it. Show us the merit of the system. If it works in the small snapshot that you've given, then it might be worth implementing. rpforumbleach.proboards.com/thread/5746/army-system-test

[Himitsu Kasumi'Oji]

I thought about the army system a lot and I came up with a unique way to play it out that fuses it with the new dice roll feature recently added to the forum. The main concept that came with it is that one should be RPing out their character, and not the army. The camera should stay on the general and only glimpse the soldiers in the battle field.

For that reason, I thought the army battles would be fought strategically more than anything. A character my split up their squadron in any way they choose (including keeping it as one large mass) and the character may direct each squadron. Based off the decisions of opposing characters, each of their squadrons may butt heads. And the victor would be decided with several factors.

The first factor would be numbers. Size is a large advantage in war, and an army receives points for each member it has. A squadrons primary strength is it's numbers. I'm still trying to come up with different ways types of soldiers or class of each soldier will impact this number.

Secondly, luck is also an unpredictable part of battle. One would have to role the dice for a number between 1 and 10. This number would go into one's total points in the clash between their army and their opponent's. For example, if Character A has 15 soldiers and he rolls a 7, he now has 22 points. As long as his opponent Character B has less than 22 points, he wins the battle.

And of course there has to be an RP aspect to this. Nothing's fun if it's all mechanical. So this aspect will be the most interesting and most significant (under army size, of course) in army battles. It takes into consideration strategic battle decisions made by a character. If one group flanks another, its battle points go up by 5. If a group makes ranged attacks such as Kido, its points go up by 10. And for surprise attacks from behind or ambushes, the attacker's points are doubled after adding the size value to the dice roll. That way, a general can actually make decisions that will drastically change their point value for each squadron rather than deciding how to divide one's army or where to position each squadron. And, finally, if two squads from the same army double team another squad, their points are added together, each squad gets different point boosts for its strategic attacking position, each group gets its own roll of the dice, and each group gets an immediate 10 points for forcing the opponent's army to attack different groups rather than one united mass.

This is a really rough outline, so feel free to give me your input. I'd like to hear from anyone who particularly doesn't like it so that I can learn how to fix any flaws with the system. Thanks.

[Deleted]

On a break right now so I can't respond at length, but since you want opinions from those who don't like it, I'll write something up tonight after work as there are a few things about this that make it seem undesirable in my eyes.

[Deleted]

So, the main reason I don't like this is because it seems like a bunch of needless complications. Why are we adding a whole system for something that's a minor part of the story? You've gone ahead and said this would only be a minor part of the threads, so why can't it just be a cinematic detail that we worry about in the background? We've already had threads where Clock has used generic Vandenreich grunts and there hasn't really been any issue with that. Adding a new system to worry about minor details just seems like something we don't really need.

[Zou ۞]

You can actually implement grunts if you're an officer of commanding rank any time anywhere. The details are up to you anyway.